Setting expectations is a key to success in almost every area of life.
This is why we’re upfront with our clients about what we do and don’t do.
In this post, you’ll learn that we don’t :
Obscure our rates
Pay vendor bills on your behalf
Estimate your waste needs
Leave your savings unprotected
Perform waste services
Ultimately, we’ve found that we serve you best when we don’t do these things.
Let’s look at why.
We don’t obscure our rates
We make sure you know exactly what you’re paying before and after you’ve procured our services.
You’re charged at a rate of 50% of the savings we find
This is our pricing, plain and simple. Our process is guaranteed cash-flow positive, meaning you pay us strictly out of the savings we find for you. We only add to your cash flow - we don’t take away from it.
Before we even begin, you know the rate at which you’ll be charged. The exact amount itself will differ based on the savings we find.
If we find $12,000 in savings every month (as we did for an Atlanta-based commercial real estate management company this past February), you’ll owe us $$6,000 each month, and you’ll keep $6,000. Simple as that.
Our invoices are transparent
Our invoices are easy to understand as well. We show you:
what you were paying for prior to our services
what you’re paying for our services
Then we split the difference, 50-50. You’ll get invoiced for half, and the other half you keep.
We don’t pay vendor bills on your behalf
We don’t ever pay your waste hauler, utility, or telecom bills on your behalf. We’re not brokers - we think you should see your bills and know what you’re paying for.
What you don’t know is costing you
Brokers and some consultants will often package waste hauler bills and their own fees in one tidy little bill.
But this bill is a summary.
It often doesn’t show exactly what services you’re being serviced for. This isn’t in and of itself a problem.
But it opens the door for deception - unintentional or otherwise.
If you only see one large fee, you don’t know how much you’re actually paying your broker. You don’t know how much you’re paying for waste fees. You don’t have a baseline to know if your broker is price gouging you, or if your waste fees have suspiciously gone up.
Ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s expensive.
Getting one bill from a broker or other waste management representative may actually be costing you thousands of dollars. How can you be sure this isn’t happening to you?
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We don’t just “estimate” your waste needs
We don’t just give your waste needs our “best guess” and move on.
Our waste audits take a minimum of two months. Why? Because you deserve to take advantage of every savings opportunity available to you.
Not most of those savings opportunities. Not many of them. All of them.
We don’t do perfunctory audits - we dig deep. We record all service information and perform history audits for every piece of equipment that is over 8yds long. We look for and record price fluctuation, increases, and fees.
Then we analyze:
where you’re overspending
what equipment is working and not working
identifies gaps in your service
Where there may be opportunities to introduce technology
the best way you can stop overspending.
Regardless of whether you have 1 location or 100 locations, we will look at every nuance to make sure no savings opportunities slip through the cracks.
90% of companies are sitting on hidden savings. How much are you sitting on?
We don’t leave your savings unprotected
After our initial audit is complete, we implement all recommended savings opportunities. We may make equipment switches or service changes, but we do these knowing that there will be a payoff.
The savings we’re able to enact for you are often substantial - as much as 20-40% of your annual waste spend.
It would be pointless to achieve these savings and then not protect them.
Accountability protects savings
Most haulers are out to make a buck. They know that most people don’t care about what they pay for waste. They know that most companies will pay whatever they charge for waste services.
In other words, haulers are rarely held accountable. As a result you’ll have price hikes several times a year, and you’ll pay ridiculous ancillary fees, and you’ll have very little recourse when things go wrong.
This isn’t sustainable.
So we provide the much-needed accountability haulers need to charge you fairly.
We’re invested in protecting your savings
We protect your savings by monitoring your invoices going forward. Vendors make mistakes 10% of the time - and some of them aren’t small.
As an independent third party, we painstakingly monitor your invoices to make sure that service is being provided as specified in your service agreement.
And as an added bonus, we take on all the service issues you may have on site. You and your staff have enough to do, so you can leave service concerns to the experts.
We don’t perform waste services
We are waste solutions providers; we do not pick up the trash or service locations ourselves.
We don’t own any dump trucks or waste equipment; you’ll never see us on your site lugging garbage around.
We coordinate all these services on your behalf, but we don’t provide the services ourselves.
You need waste solutions
Tired of spending too much time and money on waste issues? You need a waste ally.
Your time is valuable, and waste mistakes are expensive. Schedule a quick consult today to get the resources you need.